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Bee62

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Ever since the jaguar incident, my husband has been trying to convince me our cats are plotting against us! When one of them walks in the room he'll say, in a stage whisper, "Don't turn your back!!!" :rolleyes:

Yeah, like they look soooooo dangerous!!!! (Monty is the grey one and Julio is ginger) :<3::<3::<3:

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Hi Bea, I noticed a dangerous situation when your kitties play with bags that still have carrying handles. A cat can put her or his head through the carrying handle and get in panic / fear because the bag is "following". When I let my cats play with bags, I remove the carrying handles at first.
 

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That is okay. Because I don't have any. I had to sell them all to look after my kids and torts.;)
Majesties always have gold, money and pearls. Maybe I have to look if Todd has something to rob and give to the poor ones.....:cool:
I am coming. I am Robin Hood from the Dark Forest of the Cold dark room.:eek::D
 

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Thanks Bee and everyone else for your kind words and support. I have the day off and am at the hospital again with him right now. We did manage to get him into the best rehab facility the VA offers. He's supposed to be moved today so I'm staying till that happens. He doesn't seem depressed about the situation but honestly he's not quite there mentally like he was before yet. I'm not to sure he is aware of the totality of the situation. He keeps talking about things he's needs to do when he goes home today and we keep having to remind him he's not going home as of yet.
A big Electronic hug from me.
 

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Thanks Bee and everyone else for your kind words and support. I have the day off and am at the hospital again with him right now. We did manage to get him into the best rehab facility the VA offers. He's supposed to be moved today so I'm staying till that happens. He doesn't seem depressed about the situation but honestly he's not quite there mentally like he was before yet. I'm not to sure he is aware of the totality of the situation. He keeps talking about things he's needs to do when he goes home today and we keep having to remind him he's not going home as of yet.
Please assure him that you and your brother are taking care of all the things he thinks he needs to do at home. I know from experience how pressing those "things" that need doing are on one's mind. It will help him to relax knowing you're taking care of it for him.
 

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The only new information on the Jaguar incident is that Valerio was VERY near the edge of the zoo when he was caught. The zoo is inside the city proper, and residential neighborhoods come right up to the zoo boundaries: people who live there hear the animals making their usual animal sounds. So the situation could have been even worse. I'm very sad for the animals who were killed, but SO GRATEFUL that it was no worse.
 

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Please assure him that you and your brother are taking care of all the things he thinks he needs to do at home. I know from experience how pressing those "things" that need doing are on one's mind. It will help him to relax knowing you're taking care of it for him.
Oh we definitely are. It's just been a little tricky because he's having trouble recalling things, when bills are due, bank account info, etc.
 

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Your banana tree looks great and the color of the hibiscus too.
Where are the dandelions for Sully gone ? Have they all dryed out ? Poor Sully !


The Spring explosion of dandelions is now passed, so we do have the occasional dandelion flower. Still plenty of greens. I do mow our lawn and get the weeds and grass in piles for Sully as well.
 

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The only new information on the Jaguar incident is that Valerio was VERY near the edge of the zoo when he was caught. The zoo is inside the city proper, and residential neighborhoods come right up to the zoo boundaries: people who live there hear the animals making their usual animal sounds. So the situation could have been even worse. I'm very sad for the animals who were killed, but SO GRATEFUL that it was no worse.
The sad thing is (or lucky) is that if he had hurt a human he would have been euthanized.
 

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Greetings all. We finally had a few scattered showers in the area yesterday afternoon. Some areas near DC and Baltimore got upwards of 2.5 inches of rain from the storms. Unfortunately not too much here, but enough to freshen things up a bit.

Went out for an early morning 2 hour paddle on the local reservoir - didnt do too much sight seeing. An hour of hard paddling up to my 1/2 way marker and an hour back. Did see an immature Bald Eagle, plenty of herons, some green herons, and a few jumping fish.

One pix of peace and quiet at 0630 -

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Good afternoon all. We have taken possession of son's new house share room today. A quick trip (OK it takes 80 minutes to get there on a good day - and today was a good day) to Elstree, home of the famous British film studios with some of his stuff. It is just north of London. The rest will go next week after his graduation and he will move in properly then too.

On the downside my Credit Card has been cancelled because the card company detected fraudulent activity. Detecting the fraud is good. Having the card removed is a nuisance. Luckily, JoesDad had previously authorised the card company to talk to me about the account as he is in India! It's ridiculous really. The card is mine and they have all my details, but because it is a joint account they will normally only talk to the main cardholder unless they have authorised you to speak to them. And the first you find this out is when there is a problem...which I did 10 years ago when he was working in Australia and my card was blocked (wrongly it turned out)

I do have another card with a different company, but all my online accounts have the other card on; it will take time to sort them out.
 

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Ironically you have English as a second language. I am not sure about Carol.

Carol is your first language Afrikaans?
Lol. No it is English. But I don't know what Verruca means. Never heard that word. Tried looking it up but still didn't get it. But my hubby reckons I am terrible at jokes.
 

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Good afternoon all. We have taken possession of son's new house share room today. A quick trip (OK it takes 80 minutes to get there on a good day - and today was a good day) to Elstree, home of the famous British film studios with some of his stuff. It is just north of London. The rest will go next week after his graduation and he will move in properly then too.

On the downside my Credit Card has been cancelled because the card company detected fraudulent activity. Detecting the fraud is good. Having the card removed is a nuisance. Luckily, JoesDad had previously authorised the card company to talk to me about the account as he is in India! It's ridiculous really. The card is mine and they have all my details, but because it is a joint account they will normally only talk to the main cardholder unless they have authorised you to speak to them. And the first you find this out is when there is a problem...which I did 10 years ago when he was working in Australia and my card was blocked (wrongly it turned out)

I do have another card with a different company, but all my online accounts have the other card on; it will take time to sort them out.
Congratulations on the first part of the move.
Having to sort your credit card out....good luck!!
 
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